A Quote by Kathy Acker

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Kathy Acker

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Humiliation Humility Personal Practice

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Kathy Acker
American - Novelist
April 18, 1947 - November 30, 1997

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

Orson Scott Card

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Milan Kundera

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

Pope Francis

Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

George H. Brimhall

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Alan Cohen

Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.

Michael Ugwu Eneja

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

David Whyte

Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.

Richard G. Scott

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

Michael Johnson

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Stephen Mitchell

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

P. J. O'Rourke

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Vance Havner

Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.

Alexandre Borovik

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.